System and method for evaluating equipment rack cooling performance
AssigneeSchneider Electric It Corporation
InventorsJames W. VanGilder, Saurabh K. Shrivastava, Xuanhang Zhang
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Abstract
Aspects of the invention are directed to systems and methods for designing and analyzing data centers. One aspect is directed to a method of determining cooling characteristics of a data center. The method includes receiving data related to a configuration of equipment in the data center, identifying rack clusters in the configuration of equipment, and determining a cooling metric for at least one equipment rack of at least one rack cluster.
Claims20
A method of optimizing cooling performance of a data center using a computer system, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the computer system, data related to a configuration of equipment in the data center;
- identifying at least one cluster in the configuration of equipment;
- determining a cluster category for the at least one cluster by determining whether the at least one cluster includes at least one of a hot aisle cluster, a cold aisle cluster, and a mixed-mode cluster;
- determining, by the computer system, a cooling metric for at least one equipment rack of the at least one cluster based on the cluster category, wherein determination of the cooling metric varies based on the cluster category;
- determining, by the computer system, whether the at least one cluster is optimized based on the cooling metric;
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- optimizing, by the computer system, a layout of the at least one cluster based on an optimization evaluation.
A data center management system comprising:
- a memory for storing data;
- and
- a controller coupled to the memory and configured to:
- receive data related to a configuration of equipment in the data center;
- identify at least one cluster in the configuration of equipment;
- determine a cluster category for the at least one cluster by determining whether the at least one cluster includes at least one of a hot aisle cluster, a cold aisle cluster, and a mixed-mode cluster;
- determine a cooling metric for at least one equipment rack of the at least one cluster based on the cluster category, wherein determination of the cooling metric varies based on the cluster category;
- determine whether the at least one cluster is optimized based in part on the cooling metric;
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- optimize a layout of the at least one cluster based an optimization evaluation.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions including instructions that will cause a processor to:
- receive data related to a configuration of equipment in the data center;
- identify at least one cluster in the configuration of equipment;
- determine a cluster category for the at least one cluster by determining whether the at least one cluster includes at least one of a hot aisle cluster, a cold aisle cluster, a mixed mode cluster;
- determine a cooling metric for at least one equipment rack of the at least one cluster based on the cluster category, wherein determination of the cooling metric varies based on the cluster category;
- determine whether the at least one cluster is optimized based in part on the cooling metric;
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- optimize a layout of the at least one cluster based an optimization evaluation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.